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The “smart metering” that communicates electric, gas or water usage data over a network to the providing utility is making inroads in some markets, but a further evolution of these technologies into “Home Area Networks” (HAN) will allow utilities greater management efficiencies while providing customers with choices about their...

Microwave and millimeter-wave high power vacuum electron devices (VED) represent a modern technological continuation of one of the original and basic building blocks of RF electronics technology. Based on original vacuum tube principles that date from the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries, these present-day incarnations couple modern...

China’s GPS phone market grew rapidly in 2007, and GPS phones, along with music and camera phones, are the brightest spots in the nation’s mobile phone market overall, reports In-Stat. A number of major handset manufacturers have entered the GPS phone market, although cautiously and with a limited number...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has transferred all activities involved in the operation and exploitation of the European share of the International Space Station (ISS) to Astrium as prime industrial contractor. The two parties have concluded a service agreement to this effect for a fixed price of €278 M,...

A major new £35 M EADS Defence and Security (DS) Centre has been opened in Newport, Wales, underlining the company’s commitment to a high-tech knowledge-based economy in the UK. As a result, 400 high-calibre employees now have an environment that truly reflects the leading-edge nature of the projects they...

The GSM Association (GSMA), the global trade body for the mobile industry, and the Next Generation Mobile Network (NGMN) Alliance, the group focused on the evolution to the next generation of mobile networks, have agreed to cooperate to help steer the development of mobile broadband communications to give customers...

Wavecom S.A. has expanded its Centers of Excellence (CoE) program to include four new Centers across the globe, bringing the total to six. The companies hosting these new CoEs are: ConnectM, based in Bangalore, India, which provides end-to-end solutions, analytics, and business intelligence to the transportation, industrial, utilities and...

In the June issue of Microwave Journal this column reported that NXP and STMicroelectronics had announced the formation of a joint venture created from the mobile and wireless businesses of both companies. It has since been revealed that the joint venture will be named ST-NXP Wireless and that its...

The US Army has selected Northrop Grumman and its partner DHS Systems to provide mobile tactical operations centers that can be rapidly deployed for command, control and communications on the battlefield. Under the Army’s Standardized Integrated Command Post Systems (SICPS) family of Trailer Mounted Support System (TMSS) contract, Northrop...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced shipment of its Genesys 2008.07 release. The new Genesys release contains improvements to the reliability of artwork masks for electromagnetic (EM) verification and RF board manufacturing, along with modeling and user interface improvements. This functionality results in shorter design cycles with fewer iterations for RF...